Acting
Maximilian Schell
Biography
Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was a Swiss actor. Born in Austria, his parents were involved in the arts and he grew up surrounded by performance and literature. While he was still a child, his family fled to Switzerland in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, and they settled in Zürich. After World War II ended, Schell took up acting and directing full-time. Schell won the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a lawyer in the legal drama Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). He was Oscar-nominated for playing a character with multiple identities in The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) and for playing a man resisting Nazism in Julia (1977). Fluent in both English and German, Schell earned top billing in a number of Nazi-era themed films. He acted in films such as Topkapi (1964), The Deadly Affair (1967), Counterpoint (1968), Simón Bolívar (1969), The Odessa File (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Deep Impact (1998). On television, he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the NBC film Miss Rose White and the HBO television film Stalin (1992), the later of which earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. He also portrayed Otto Frank in the TV film The Diary of Anne Frank (1980), the Russian emperor Peter the Great in the NBC series Peter the Great (1986), Frederick the Great in the British series Young Catherine (1991), and Brother Jean le Maistre in the miniseries Joan of Arc (1999). Schell also performed in a number of stage plays, including a celebrated performance as Prince Hamlet. Schell was an accomplished pianist and conductor, performing with Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein, and with orchestras in Berlin and Vienna. His elder sister was the internationally noted actress Maria Schell; he produced the documentary tribute My Sister Maria in 2002. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maximilian Schell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies with Maximilian Schell
Deep Impact
1998
A Bridge Too Far
1977
Vampires
1998
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
Cross of Iron
1977
The Freshman
1990
The Brothers Bloom
2008
The Young Lions
1958
The Black Hole
1979
The Deadly Affair
1967
The Odessa File
1974
Julia
1977
A Far Off Place
1993
Little Odessa
1994
Counterpoint
1967
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996
The Shell Seekers
2007
Heidi
1968
Topkapi
1964
Stalin
1992
First Love
1970
To Be Hamlet
1985
Abraham
1993
St. Ives
1976
Left Luggage
1998
Marlene
1984
Avalanche Express
1979
Krakatoa, East of Java
1969
The Chosen
1981
Together?
1979
Festival in Cannes
2001
Telling Lies in America
1997
Black Flowers
2009
Pope Joan
1972
Coast to Coast
2004
The Condemned of Altona
1962
Paulina 1880
1972
The Diary of Anne Frank
1980
Miss Rose White
1992
Just Messing About
2000
The Man in the Glass Booth
1975
House of the Sleeping Beauties
2006
Return from the Ashes
1965
The Assisi Underground
1985
The Rose Garden
1989
The Phantom of the Opera
1983
The Pedestrian
1973
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955
Les Îles
1983
End of the Game
1978
The Reluctant Saint
1962
The Eighteenth Angel
1997
Simón Bolívar
1969
The Day That Shook the World
1975
Zwischen Rosen
1997
Players
1979
The Desperate Ones
1967
I Love You, Baby
2000
Judgment at Nuremberg
1959
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1961
Justice
1993
The Vampyre Wars
1996
Candles in the Dark
1993
Les brigands
2015
Darkness
2009
The Fifth Column
1960
Der seidene Schuh
1965
Die Rosenkönigin
2007
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
The Castle
1968
My Sister Maria
2002
Five Finger Exercise
1962
Labyrinth
1991
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979
Alles Glück dieser Erde
2003
Jedermann Remixed
2011
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
1956
Die Bernauerin
1958
Ripening Youth
1955
Die sechste Frau
1959
The Girl from Flanders
1956
Man Under Suspicion
1984
Children of the Mountains
1958
On the Wings of Love
1999
Ein Herz kehrt heim
1956
Why Havel?
1991
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
1966
Die Liebe eines Priesters
2005
Der Meisterdieb
1958
The Last Ones Shall Be First
1957
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
2002
Children, Mother, and the General
1955
Taxichauffeur Bänz
1957
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
2007
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
1966
You Can't Live Like That
1990
Die Alpenklinik
2006
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
2004
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
1996
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
1959
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
2010
TV Shows with Maximilian Schell
Markus Lanz
2008
NDR Talk Show
1979
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Kölner Treff
1976
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Riverboat
1992
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
Bambi
1948
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
The Oscars
1953
Kulturzeit
1995
Nachtcafé
1987
People's Choice Awards
1975
Romy Award
1990
Beckmann
1999
German Film Award
1951
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005
Wiseguy
1987
Playhouse 90
1956
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994
Goldene Kamera
1984
Kulturplatz
2004
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
Stars in the Ring
1959
Heut' abend
1980
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
Seitenblicke
1987
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
Joan of Arc
1999
Showgeschichten
1986
Peter the Great
1986
Lebens-Künstler
1995
Semperopernball
2006
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Je später der Abend
1973
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003
Abraham
1994
Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
2010
Young Catherine
1991
Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
2004
Sternstunde Kunst
1998
Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz
2007
Bernstein/Beethoven
1982
The Three Musketeers
1968
Der seidene Schuh
1965
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
2002
Imperium der Päpste
2008